10 Top Stories Not To Miss On GDI This Week
- Forbes Profiles Bumble’s Co-Founder & CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd – The magazine cover, entitled ‘The £1 billion Queen Bee of dating apps’, will be available in Forbes’ December 12, 2017 issue.
- Hinge’s Users Increase By 130% After Redesign Last Year – Hinge conducted data analysis to see results a year after the redesign, and according to the company its amount of users has increased by 130%.
- Platform Dating Rework Reduces Server Costs by 92% – Founder & entrepreneur David Minns has consolidated the umbrella company’s network of sites onto one platform.
- Western Union Must Repay Victims of Online Dating Scams – The US Federal Trade Commission is overseeing the operation, after finding that Western Union failed to act responsibly in defence of the American public.
- Erin & Sara Foster Join Bumble As Head of Creatives – They are behind the scripted reality-parody show Barely Famous, Sara is a TV actress in 90210 and Erin is a writer who has recently sold a pilot to Fox.
- From Academia: The Psychological Impact of Dating Scams – UK-based researchers Monica T Whitty and Tom Buchanan produced the research, which makes policy recommendations alongside the analysis.
- New Meet-Up Dating App Tonight Launches On iOS – The team from Whim dating app launched Tonight after Whim users found it too difficult to plan ahead to meet up with their matches.
- Dating Apps Linked to STD Rises in Vox Analysis – The article, published in Vox, cites 2015 data on the population of Rhode Island.
- SingleMuslim.com Hits 1M UK Users – Over 31% of British Muslims have used SingleMuslim.com, at over 50,000 marriages have been attributed to the platform.
- Match Group has Announced a Series of Leadership Appointments – These movements are due to coincide with Mandy Ginsberg’s planned assumption of the CEO role.
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